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Monday, July 04, 2005

Speed Comics #23 - Cover

When I talk about Jack Kirby artwork on WWII flag-draped super-heroes of military rank, you know I'm talking about...

Captain Freedom?

Yep. Kirby did a bunch of covers in 1942 for this Harvey Comics character who appeared in SPEED COMICS. Don't know too much about the character, he was apparently a newspaper publisher named Don Hudson who sometimes had a kid gang group the Young Defenders helping him. The handful of covers Kirby did were certainly good.

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The original art for this cover was up for auction a while ago. Check out the scan here.

Published 1942

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one who thinks this cover looks more Simon than Kirby?


Nick Caputo

bob said...

I thought a few of the other SPEED covers attributed to Kirby looked a bit more Simon, but thought this one clearly had some Kirby. But then I've never looked at solo Simon too closely. Definitely a different inking style than was typical of their DC or Marvel work of the era.

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